So … a random post from a random user without any corroborating evidence is now the source of news?

Yeah, nah.

Record it to local storage and use VLC?

“I fixed it so our personal information doesn’t get sold to the highest bidder.”

That’s precisely how we use it.

The TV is essentially used as a dumb monitor and has an Apple TV and Chromecast plugged into it.

My LG TV is not connected to the internet.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said this week it will retest 4,000 DNA samples and open an internal investigation after learning that it used potentially flawed test kits for eight months.

Sheriff’s officials said Wednesday that a test kit manufacturer sent a letter in August warning the department to stop using certain kits that were prone to giving incomplete results. However, the letter was received by a civilian employee who didn’t discard the kits or send them back, according to a department statement.

The department used the flawed kits from July through February, testing thousands of samples from criminal investigations.

The problem was discovered Monday when a supervisor at the department’s Scientific Services Bureau found the manufacturer’s letter.

The department said it has opened an internal investigation to assess how much the faulty kits have affected criminal cases, and will retest some 4,000 DNA samples.

“We take the integrity of our criminal investigations and the reliability of our forensic testing very seriously,” Sheriff Robert Luna said in a statement. “The Sheriff’s Department is working diligently to assess the impact and to prevent such situations from occurring again.” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office had begun working with the sheriff’s department to determine the extent of the problem. Sheriff’s officials said the bad tests might have led to incomplete results, but they are "not likely to have falsely identified any individual.”

The department declined to name the manufacturer.

I’m pleasantly surprised at the levelheaded reporting. It’s strikingly neutral, to the point where the Republican quote sounds like a shrill shreak in a sea of reasonableness.

There’s no call for perpetrators being hunted down, no death threats, it’s all very civil.

It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:

• Australia
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• United Kingdom

I’m extremely sceptical about any such service. They require your personal information, so they can prove your identity to delete it elsewhere. I get the argument, but this is giving your stuff to yet another organisation.

Not only that.

Imagine the communication between the service provider and the organisation you want your data removed from.

How do you know that the service provider doesn’t provide all your identity data to that organisation to identify you, so they can remove your email address. What’s to stop the organisation creating a record in their private database with all your details, when previously they had just your email address?

Just because your data is visible with a Google search, doesn’t mean that this represents all records pertaining to you. Adding data and sharing it around just exacerbates the issue.

I stay well clear.

In my opinion, pretty much spot on.

In my experience, the single biggest bully on the internet are the servers controlled by Meta which in my experience literally perform DDoS attacks whilst crawling, hitting sites several orders of magnitude more than all the others combined.

Actively blocking them was the only option left.

😂

With the likes of massive companies like Disney and Paramount running the show … it’s going to be a while.

Also, you do realise that these massive wages come from the obscene profits made by movies, in other words, if you want to make money, you need to spend it.

Hmm … the author uses a hotspot connected with a SIM. Their whole argument hinges on not being tracked, but their hotspot is with them all the time. Seems like a massive hole in their privacy argument.

So, we can expect more security breaches?

Microsoft: Move along … Nothing to see here.

A whole million? You thought there was only A grade and B grade movies … wait until you see Z grade.

For context, Keanu Reeves was paid $156 million for the two Matrix sequels. There’s plenty more actors getting paid over a million … each.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-paid_film_actors

It appears that these countries now have some form of warning associated with travelling to the USA:

• Australia
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Portugal
• United Kingdom

Given the current “administration” track record of pursuing an anti-imigrant agenda I doubt that the deaths of 6.3 million people who are not citizens or tax-payors will even register, let alone cause concern.

What might cause a reaction is the rest of the world.

So, tell your local politicians in your own country.

If both your parents did a DNA test with the same company, and you are their child and not the result of a liaison with the milkman, you are 100% screwed.

If you are the product of a liaison with the milkman and the milkman didn’t do a DNA test with the same company, you’re 50% screwed.

If you were adopted, then there will be no impact from the DNA test, but if your parents didn’t tell you, they’re 100% screwed. (Assuming that your birth parents didn’t have a DNA test.)

In other words, there’s a non-zero chance that you’re screwed.